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> These are cool but I wonder if they actually see a lot of use in the wild. I wonder if a FOIA request to the Department of Defense requesting "information ab
by privong 11y ago
> These are cool but I wonder if they actually see a lot of use in the wild.
I wonder if a FOIA request to the Department of Defense requesting "information about any underwater combat engagements between frogmen and/or divers" would result in anything useful?
- EthanHeilman 11y agoYou might want to look into the story of Lionel Crabb, an SAS frogman suspected of being killed while performing espionage against a soviet warship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Crabb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Crabb
- chrisseaton 11y agoWhere did you get the SAS part from?
- dazc 11y agoSpecial Force: The Untold Story of 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CJ73AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA289&lpg=PA289&dq=Lionel+Crabb+sas&source=bl&ots=CIRoH0rLJ9&sig=r0zEuYM3QzYq4TMeDCBz-A-UMaQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD2pCEg_jKAhXHbBoKHZSwB-8Q6AEIQTAE#v=onepage&q=Lionel%20Crabb%20sas&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CJ73AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA289&lp...
- chrisseaton 11y agoThat doesn't say that he was in the SAS. It just has his name and SAS in the same paragraph. It says that in the past MI6 needed a person with military skills do something, as was the case with Crabb, so they decided to start cross-training SAS people to do that in the future. Neither the Wikipedia article nor this endnote says that Crabb was SAS.
- dazc 11y agoI was just hazarding a guess at the question: "Where did you get the SAS part from?"
- arethuza 11y agoProbably more relevant to look at the UK SBS rather than the SAS.
- gozur88 11y agoThat's an interesting read. I wonder if the DNA is in good enough shape to tell us whether or not the body is his.